Bishop Schneider : " the confusion has increased and not decreased, especially during the last …

Haynes — In the final days of Pope Francis’s life, and then in the early days of Pope Leo’s reign, you identified a number of issues that you saw as a needing quite speedy action. We’re now approaching nearly five months of Pope Leo’s reign, and it’s been fairly quiet. What would you say are the most pressing needs in the Church today?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: I would say the most pressing need is that the Pope should strengthen the entire Church in faith, which is his first task, one of the main tasks of a pope which God himself gave to Peter and his successors.
It is evident to all that the life of the Church is immersed in an unprecedented confusion of faith, regarding faith, morals, and liturgy – the Church is really immersed in a kind of dust or mist of confusion.
We cannot continue as a Church to go into further confusion. This is against Christ himself, against the Gospel itself. Christ came to bring us the truth, and truth means clarity. And therefore, the most urgent …More